BBA News Release

Boston Bar Foundation Will Fund 10 Summer Jobs for Boston Teens

In an unprecedented move highlighting its support for the
public service activities of the bar, the Boston Bar Foundation (BBF) today announced that it will provide more than $35,000 in
funding to permit 10 students to participate in the Boston Bar Association (BBA)
Summer
Jobs Program
in 2012. This marks a
significant increase in the BBF's level of commitment since the summer of 2011
when it provided funding for five students.

"The funding we announce today underscores the BBF's
commitment to creating access to law-related career and educational enrichment
opportunities for Boston's youth," said BBF President John D. Donovan, a partner
at Ropes & Gray. "The BBA, with its dedication to increasing the diversity of
the bar and serving our community, has provided invaluable opportunities through
its Summer Jobs program."

"At the same time," said Donovan, "we announce this funding as
a challenge for every law firm and legal department that has not yet signed up
to hire a student through the BBA Summer Jobs program to get on board. We call
on Boston's Law firms to do their part in ensuring a strong future for our
city. Together we can make a difference in these student's lives and enhance
the future of the legal profession."

To date, 28 law firms have committed to hiring 32
students through the BBA Summer Jobs Program, with a BBA Committee co-chaired by
David Rosenblatt of Burns & Levinson
and Edward Notis-McConarty of Hemenway
& Barnes actively working to recruit additional firms. The Program, which aligns with the
BBA's diversity initiative and provides many students with their first work
experience in a professional setting, provides an 8 week paid internship to high
school juniors, seniors and rising college freshman from Boston’s public
schools.

The additional 10 students whose jobs will be funded by the BBF will be
working in public interest settings, typically legal aid organizations or public
agencies without the means to hire them. Established in 1993, the BBA Summer
Jobs Program represents a partnership with the Boston Private Industry Council
and the Boston Public Schools.

Since the program began in 1993, more than 350 diverse students from Boston's
public high schools have completed the program, with many going on to college,
several even going on to law school and careers in the legal field. BBA Summer
Jobs alums have also been invited to continue working at law firms during the
school year and after college.

Historically, the Boston Bar Foundation has funded four students collectively
through the Austin P. Jones and M. Ellen Carpenter memorial funds. Earlier this
month, the BBF Board of Trustees unanimously voted to increase funding for
Summer Jobs, strengthening the Foundation's ties to the community.

The Boston Bar Association expresses its heartfelt thanks to the following
public spirited law firms and organizations for their support of the 2012 Summer
Jobs Program:

The Boston Bar Association traces its origins to meetings convened by John Adams, who provided pro bono representation to the British soldiers prosecuted for the Boston Massacre and went on to become the nation’s second president. Its mission is to advance the highest standards of excellence for the legal profession, facilitate access to justice, serve the community at large and promote diversity and inclusion.